Prominent lawyer and State
Senator
Patrick Shine, and his family, lived in the
Muzzy Mansion, then known as the Shine House,
from 1905 until widow Shine's death in 1955. In
the 1971 Spokane Daily Chronicle article
below, Patrick Shine's daughter describes how
her father, while on a business trip to Canada
with early Spokane Mayor
Daniel Drumheller and Spokane financier
Alfred Coolidge, found a mammoth buffalo
skull. After bringing the skull home, architect
Kirkland Cutter used it as a model for the
cast of massive buffalo heads affixed to
Spokane's Monroe Street Bridge. As described in
the article, for those doubting the authenticity
of the skull's scale, the original skull could
be seen on Shine's garage for many years.